Quotes by Josh Billings

Josh Billings

Josh Billings

American humorist

Lived from: 1818 - 1885

Category: Comedians Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 april 1818 Died: 14 october 1885

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  • One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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  • Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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  • Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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  • Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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  • Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
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  • Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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  • Some folks are wise and some otherwise.
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  • Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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  • The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
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  • The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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  • The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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  • The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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  • The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
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  • The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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  • The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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  • The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
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  • The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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  • There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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  • There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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  • There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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